[Mapserver-users] Re: Query data PHP/Mapscript

[Jim Burnett]

Yeah I looked in the dbase methods but they dont work with any of the dbf
files I have. Actually Excel and Access can even read them.  Any clues?


----- Original Message -----
From: "pkishor_98" <pkishor at geoanalytics.com>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:57 PM
Subject: [Mapserver-users] Re: Query data PHP/Mapscript


> --- In mapserver-users at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Burnett" <r000t at a...> wrote:
> > Hey all, looks like spring is here at last!
> >
> > Anywho, I want to search a dbf file for some data ( not map ). For
> example I have a parcel layer that I want to search on. I want to get
> all the "smiths" or whatever I want to search on. Can this be done?
>
>
> sure... check out the dbase methods in php. make sure php is compiled
> with dbase.
>
> since dbf is a crummy format, you will have to loop through each row,
> and within each row, loop through each field, unless you know which
> field you are searching for, until you find what you are looking for.
>
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